WORLD DATELINES

Compiled from Examiner wire reports

Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, August 29, 1995

AH: President's aide held without bail Bogota, Colombia Prosecutors have charged President Ernesto Samper's campaign director with taking money from drug traffickers in last year's election and falsifying documents to hide the contributions.

Fernando Botero, who resigned as defense minister Aug. 2, was ordered held without bail, Prosecutor General Alfonso Valdivieso announced Monday.

The charges stem from Botero's alleged role in seeking money from the Cali cartel, said to now be the world's biggest cocaine-trafficking organization, and in falsifying documents to hide the campaign contributions.

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There was no immediate reaction from Samper.

U.N. to investigate

Burundi chief's death United Nations The U.N. Security Council has created a commission of five jurists to probe the 1993 murder of Burundi's president in an effort to head off a repetition of the massacres that followed his death.

In a resolution drafted by the United States, the council voted 15-0 Monday for an International Commission of Inquiry to investigate the murder of President Melchior Ndadaye during a failed Tutsi-led army coup on Oct. 21, 1993, and subsequent revenge killings that resulted in 50,000 deaths.

The commission would not try any suspects but would recommend ways of bringing them to justice as well as legal reforms "to prevent any repetition of deeds similar to those investigated by the commission and, in general, to eradicate impunity and promote national reconciliation in Burundi."

Algerian named as

Paris bomb suspect Paris An Algerian said to have planned the Christmas hijacking of a French airliner in Algiers has been identified as a suspect in last month's bloody bombing of a Paris commuter train, a French newspaper has reported.

Monday's report in the daily Le Monde followed a near-disaster during the weekend when a 55-pound unexploded bomb was found alongside a heavily traveled high-speed railway line near Lyon, raising fears of a guerrilla escalation.

Investigators said the gas canister bomb had similarities to bombs used in two recent Paris attacks that killed seven people and wounded 103.

Le Monde said a second suspect in the July 25 attack on a Paris commuter train had been identified by a witness from a large mole on his face as an Algerian using the assumed name of Yahia Rihane, also known as "Krounfil" - Algerian slang for a mole.

Report of phone calls

before assassination Mexico City A Mexican opposition senator says an accused gunman in the slaying of ruling party presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was in telephone contact with officials at the presidential residence of Los Pinos before the killing.

Guillermo del Rio of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party said Monday that telephone records showed Othon Cortes Vazquez, the second accused gunman in the case, had made several calls to telephones at Los Pinos in Mexico City, the residence of then-President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Del Rio said Attorney General Antonio Lozano Gracia had revealed the information in a meeting with legislators who were following the Colosio case.&lt;